| Barbarism and Religion: Volume 3, the First Decline and Fall Contributor(s): Pocock, J. G. a. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521824451 ISBN-13: 9780521824453 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $97.85 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2003 Annotation: This major intervention from one of the world's leading historians, challenges the notion of any one 'Enlightenment' and posits instead a plurality of enlightenments, of which the English was one. The first two volumes of Barbarism and Religion were warmly and widely reviewed, and won the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History of the American Philosophical Society. In the third volume in the sequence, John Pocock presents a historical introduction to the first fourteen chapters of Gibbon's great work, recounting the end of the classical civilization Gibbon and his readers knew so much better than the worlds that followed. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | History & Theory - General - History | Ancient - Rome - History | Historiography |
| Dewey: 937.060 |
| LCCN: 98-41114 |
| Lexile Measure: 1640 |
| Physical Information: 1.49" H x 6.36" W x 9.2" (2.17 lbs) 542 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Italy |
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Contributor Bio(s): Pocock, J. G. a.: - J. G. A. Pocock is one of the world's leading historians of ideas, and is Harry C. Black Emeritus Professor of History at The Johns Hopkins University. |